Back in 2007, I wrote a two part essay titled "Is There Hope"
(Part 1
and
Part 2)
where I
discussed the frustrations that I had when I tried reaching the people
in my generation and convince them that freedom and not government was
the answer to creating happiness and prosperity. At the time I thought
there wasn't much hope for my generation. It's interesting how I can
look back on my previous work and see not only how my writing has
progressed, but to see how my opinions have evolved as well. I no
longer think that my generation, which according to the information
that I have gathered is Generation X, is the worst. Not by a longshot.

The one thing I can say about my generation despite how misguided and
naïve they were in their world views at the time, they were at least
for the most part respectable towards my views, even though they may
have seemed completely off the wall to them. Hell, when we had a class
project where we were supposed to pass fake bills through a mock
congress, I created a bill that overturned about 99% of the nation's
gun laws. While the whole class thought that I was insane (some even
said it to my face), they didn't try to shout me down or retreat to
their "Safe Spaces."

This could also have to do with the fact that this occurred at what is
now called Lonestar College, which is actually an entire network of
community colleges with several different campuses. Not the most ideal
place for student activism. Though I can't say that I had too many bad
experiences at the downtown campus of UH. For the most part I had
professors who understood that their job was to educate and not
indoctrinate. The only exception to this rule was when I took some
kind of multi-culture course for teacher certification. There I was
told that I was privileged, since I was a white male. Aside from the
blatant insult of being told that everything that I have had to work
for in life was actually given to me because of my race, I felt very
uncomfortable being the only one in that class that had the "White
Male Privilege" label. I would later drop the course, since I already
had a full work load anyway. Other than that particular class, my
experiences with UH were for the most part positive. I know that's not
necessarily the case for students with conservative and libertarian
views who have been shouted down or censored for having views that
don't match the accepted dogma of campus Social Justice Warriors. The
sad part is that it seems as if things have gotten worse since the
last time I attended college.

It seems as if all the twenty-somethings from the Millennial
generation have taken the so-called "right not to be offended" to
whole new extremes and it actually makes them seem as if they have
become a parody of themselves. The best example of this is the "Safe
Space", a place where college students go whenever there is a guest
speaker that says something that offends their sensibilities. A place
where the students can make sculptures out of Play-Doh, blow bubbles,
paint pictures or watch a TV set that shows images of puppies, kittens
and rainbows. No, I'm not kidding. What is even better is that
professors now have to provide trigger warnings if their lesson plan
involves words such as rape. When I first heard about this, I thought
for sure that these instances had been made up by a conservative or a
libertarian satirist.

It makes me wonder how the hell these kids are going to survive the
real world, once they leave college. Eventually they are going to have
a boss that asks them to do something that is less than pleasant. I am
pretty sure there are not going to be any trigger warnings or safe
spaces to hide in. For that matter they aren't going to be able shout
down their boss every time he says something that may offend their
sensibilities, which brings me to my next point. At Yale the student
council wanted to rid the campus of offensive costumes during
Halloween, so they called for students to have their costumes
inspected by the council. The head school master rightfully pointed
out the absurdity of the council in an email and was forced to
confront a student mob of the Easily Offended because of it. At one
point the head school master found himself shouted at and even cursed
at by some entitled princess that thought it was the job of the head
school master to create a place where everybody felt safe as opposed
to creating an intellectual environment. I can't even comprehend
talking to a college professor like that, even the one who told me
that I was privileged for being a white male, much less a head school
master.

I would love to see that little princess pull that same crap with her
boss, once she goes out into the workplace. The only "Safe Space" that
she will be able to run to will be her own apartment. That is until
she is unable to make rent, then her only safe space will be her
parents' basement, until they get tired of her apathy and kick her
out. What was even sadder was the fake petition circulating the same
campus that called for the abolition of the First Amendment. The
students were only so eager to sign away one of our most fundamental
rights. Yes, it is now official. My generation is definitely not the
worst.

Then we have that insanity going on in the Missouri campus, where the
students forced the University president to resign since he didn't
move fast enough in addressing the problem of phantom racism on
campus. The reason why I say phantom racism is because the only
evidence we have of anything remotely racist occurring on the campus
is a Swastika drawn out on the wall with human feces, which is a sign
that I am not even sure how to interpret. Once the campus gave into
those lunatics, they came up with an entirely new set of demands. Now
the patients are officially running the asylum in the University of
Missouri.

I do have a solution for all the entitled and easily offended
twenty-somethings that can't handle anything that they would deem unpleasant.
We should form an organization where we can employ ex-drill sergeants
like R. Lee Ermey and maybe some notoriously harsh critics like Simon
Cawl and Gordon Ramsey to go to these campuses and lay into these
candy-assed Millennials so they can finally learn a thing or two about
humility. They obviously aren't going to learn from their parents, who
probably coddled their kids by making sure they got a participation
trophy for every competition where they came in last. We sure as hell
can't rely on campus administrators to put these little pansies in
their place. So I think the only true way to save this generation is
to toughen them up by sending ex-drill sergeants and harsh critics to
invade their safe spaces and tear their sensitivities to shreds. Who's
with me?

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